Moulding for black & white prints

[prospero]

That's an interesting point. True b/w photos done with "wet" b/w film have no colour content. If they are printed on the average inkjet printer, the software treats them as a colour photo. So you don't get an absolute black. There is always a colour cast. I have printed colour images that I have converted to greyscale and they always look bluish.

[RobinC]

I have just bought an epson printer/scanner and after about a week of use the black cartridge is empty and I have been asked if I want to use the colour inks to produce black. If you want to print a B & W photo you need to use your printer software to tell the printer to print in black only (this may not be possible with every printer). I am hoping that the printer is supplied with low capacity cartridges otherwise I will need a second mortgage!

[kev@frames]

I don't know what a photo pen is and I can't relate to any piles of half finished jobs waiting to be signed.

Have you inflicted more PITA customers on yourself than I have, or maybe you deal with 'the trade' more than I do? Well, I don't actually - not in the grand scheme of things.

pens for writing on photographic materials/negatives etc as used in the print trade.

probably not "inflicted" them on myself, area is full of artists, newlyn groups, st ives groups, etc, and landscape photography is a big thing here. So a lot of these think of themselves as "trade", and i suppose therefore we do have a higher proprtion of trade (artist/photographer/gallery) work in this partcicular area than most framers do in other areas.